Gordis On the Web

Daniel Gordis on the Web and in the Blogosphere

Refocusing the Conversation | June 21, 2011
By Jonah Geffen and Kelly Cohen
We are trapped in a discourse that has no logical end. It has been asserted that the knowledge and life experience of the current generation of Rabbinical students with regard to Israel is cause for great concern and fear. The deans and Presidents of Rabbinical schools have responded to the contrary…
http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/refocusing-the-conversation/

Dumb… dumber… dumbest… Wasserman Schultz
American Thinker
Daniel Gordis speaks to a visiting J Street group in Israel. Some had to leave early to make sure they made it on time for the upcoming flotilla. 4. …

Gordis Calls Out J Street to its Face
Commentary
It’s a testament to J Street’s waning relevancy that its highly entertaining feud with Rabbi Daniel Gordis has gotten very little attention over the past …

An Israeli Response to J Street
Pajamas Media
Daniel Gordis of the Shalem Center addressed the J Street Leadership Mission to Israel and Palestine. His remarks were brilliantly phrased and worth reading …

Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End (review)J Streicker – Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 2011
… Volume 29, Number 1, Fall 2010. E-ISSN: 1534-5165 Print ISSN: 0882-8539. Reviewed by. Joel Streicker Central American Resource Center. Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End, by Daniel Gordis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2009…

TIME magazine savages Israel — again
Washington Post
Daniel Gordis, a senior vice president at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem counters: “Time calls the Shin Bet a ‘shadowy’ organization, as if the work of the …

Should Jonathan Pollard be pardoned?
Washington Post
Daniel Gordis, senior vice president of the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, e-mails me that Israelis are convinced “that he’s served far beyond what he …

Through an American Lens: Dreaming Utopia in Early Israeli CinemaJ Burstein – Studies in American Jewish Literature, 2010
… 2009, an American-born writer, Daniel Gordis who lives in Israel, attributes the decades-long
Israeli occupation of the West Bank to “a defensive war that it did not seek.” But the Israeli professor who has aroused Gordis’s interest and many Americans’ fury by asking for an…

J Burstein – Studies in American Jewish Literature, 2010
… 2009, an American-born writer, Daniel Gordis who lives in Israel, attributes the decades-long
Israeli occupation of the West Bank to “a defensive war that it did not seek.” But the Israeli professor
who has aroused Gordis’s interest and many Americans’ fury by asking for an …

Time magazine cover story: offensive to Jews?
Cleveland Jewish News
The backlash includes a commentary by Daniel Gordis, senior vice president of the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. “Is there no limit to the Israel-bashing that …

The Telegraph | JTA – Jewish & Israel News
Odds & ends from the staff of JTA… A few weeks back we flagged Jay Michaelson’s “How I’m losing my love for Israel” essay in the Forward. Now Daniel Gordis, a U.S.-born Conservative rabbi who made aliyah several years ago…
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No Right to Exhaustion
Forward – New York, NY,USA
By Daniel Gordis… This piece was originally published on October 9 on the blog of Daniel Gordis, and is reprinted below with permission from the author…

The Story of Zionism
Jewish Exponent – Philadelphia, PA,USA
They are broached in the brief prelude to Daniel Gordis’ new, compelling book, Saving Israel, whose title probably answers at least one of the queries he…

Why choose Israel?
Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle – WI,USA
I’ve also been reading Daniel Gordis’ If a Place Can Make You Cry: Dispatches…Calling himself a classic Zionist, Gordis struggles with a range of…

Aish.com delivered
Aish – Jerusalem,Israel
Daniel Gordis records, in his important new book Saving Israel: How Israel Can Win a War That May Never End, being asked by an American Jewish friend: “Why has Israel…

Netanyahu’s Broader Stance Earns Early US Favor
Washington Post – Washington, DC, USA
“The circumstances around him have changed, because Israel is in a very different position than it was,” said Daniel Gordis, senior vice president and a…

The Hope That Is Israel
The Jewish Week – New York, NY, USA
In his powerful new work, Saving Israel, Daniel Gordis makes Israel’s case in uncompromising and certain strokes. Nonetheless, advocacy does not forestall…

A Caterpillar and an Anthem
Jewish Herald-Voice – Houston, TX, USA
By DANIEL GORDIS
07.JAN.09 Almost 10 years ago, shortly after we made aliyah, we were sitting with our three young children having dinner. One of the boys,…

Blog Am
By Rabbi Jason Rosenberg
Tuesday, January 6, 2009. I’m planning on posting a piece about the situation in Gaza sometime soon. For now, here’s a piece written by Rabbi Daniel Gordis, which is well worth reading. Posted by Rabbi Jason Rosenberg at 7:58 AM…Blog Am – http://cbatampa.blogspot.com/

My synagogue continually clamors for Daniel Gordis to visit us again. There simply is not a more effective speaker on Israel — its problems and wonders — than Dr. Daniel Gordis.

Rabbi David WolpeSenior Rabbi of Sinai TempleLos Angeles

Daniel Gordis is one of Israel’s most thoughtful observers

Prof. Alan DershowitzRenowned legal and political commentator; Best-selling author of "The Case for Israel"

If you asked me, ‘of all the people you know, who cares the most about the physical, moral and spiritual health of Israel?’ I would put the commentator and scholar Daniel Gordis at the top of the list.

Jeffrey GoldbergThe Atlantic

Through his intelligent, informed, concerned, and insightful writings, Daniel Gordis pushes the Jewish people in both Israel and the Diaspora to pay thoughtful attention to the great issues of the day.

Rabbi David Ellenson, PhDChancellor, Hebrew Union College

"More than a country, Israel is a people reborn, a mission still to be fulfilled" - Daniel Gordis

Meet Daniel Gordis

Dr. Daniel Gordis is Senior Vice President and the Koret Distinguished Fellow at Shalem College in Jerusalem. The author of numerous books on Jewish thought and currents in Israel, and a recent winner of the National Jewish Book Award, Dr. Gordis was the founding dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the University of Judaism.